shelakh lekha

June 13, 2014
By bethmordecai
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Parashat Sh’lah L’kha (שלח לך): The Religious Value of Doubting What You See and Desire

Parashat Sh’lah L’kha: The Religious Value of Doubting What You See and Desire In this week’s Torah portion we read the stories of twelve leaders of Israel who are commanded to “spy” (la-tur) the land of Canaan (Numbers 13:2). Yet at the end of the Torah portion, the  root t-u-r that was used earlier for the positive command “to spy” is used here as the negative command for the Israelites to “not follow (v’lo taturu) what they feel in their hearts and what they see with their eyes (Numbers 15:39).  What can we learn from the juxtaposition of different meanings for this same root? Why[...]

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shelakh lekha

May 31, 2013
By bethmordecai
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Parashat Sh’lakh L’kha (שלח לך) — One Torah For All?

2013/5773 (Triennial III) -- One Torah For All? In this week's Torah portion, God commands that all non-Jews, or "strangers" who live with the people of Israel have torah ehat, "one Torah," to live by along with the rest of Israel. To what extent does this mean that Judaism should accept all people into the larger congregation of Israel?

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